SURFACING - A NOVEL BY: MARGARET ATWOOD

FEATURES: SURFACING - A NOVEL   BY: MARGARET ATWOOD

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A) CONDITION BOOK: NEAR FINE - HARD BOUND

B) CONDITION DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD - NOT PRICE CLIPPED [$6.95]

C) FIRST EDITION - SECOND PRINTING - MACLELLAND + STEWART PUBLISHERS 1972

D) NOTE:  SECOND NOVEL PUBLISHED BY ATWOOD, HER ONLY WORK TENDED TO BE POETRY.  OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF FIRST FREE END-PAPER.  FLAT SIGNED BY ATWOOD ON THE HALF TITLE.  192 PAGES.

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About:

Surfacing is a novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Published by McClelland and Stewart in 1972, it was her second novel. Surfacing has been described by commentators as a companion novel to Atwood's collection of poems, Power Politics, which was written the previous year and deals with complementary issues.^[1]

The novel, grappling with notions of national and gendered identity, anticipated rising concerns about conservation and preservation and the emergence of Canadian nationalism.^[2] It was adapted into a movie in 1981.  The book tells the story of a woman who returns to her hometown in Canada to find her missing father. Accompanied by her lover, Joe, and a married couple, Anna and David, the unnamed protagonist meets her past in her childhood house, recalling events and feelings, while trying to find clues to her father's mysterious disappearance. Little by little, the past overtakes her and drives her into the realm of wildness and madness.